sachin please tell me what is the procedure of manually pledging shares so i can open an account if its do able , i understand the concept but if you could please explain how its done
When you open a demat account with us, we send you a transfer instruction booklet.. You can also open an e-kool account, where you can basically transfer shares from your demat to the other online...
If you are using a delivery instruction booklet, you will have to courier this to us or send it to any IL&FS office in the country..Once the transfer is done, you get the applicable margins... Find following a brief on how it works...
The shares would move from your beneficiary account to our (Zerodha) beneficiary account through an Off- Market transfer which you to initiate and in turn these stocks would be moved to IL&FS margin account. IL&FS would then provide you margins against these shares after considering NSE VaR margins and your limit would be enhanced on your trading platform. Whenever you wish to not receive these margins, you can just send us a request to withdraw the securities held in IL&FS and we would inturn move them to your beneficiary account. The whole process would cost you Rs 250/- per line item regardless of the size of your transfer/scrip.
Please note that at all times you would continue to remain the owner of the securities that you have transferred and hence would be eligible for all corporate benefits, whatsover. Such corporate benefits would be passed on to you. Every broker does this as a value added service and not necessarily as a money making process. We understand that not all clients can bring in cash to trade and since securities are assets, we could give margin against such assets for the client to trade.
However there are some rules regarding the same which is explained below :
You would need to transfer the shares from your DP to our beneficiary account at IL&FS. As soon as the shares are transferred, you'll get margin against those shares after the exchange prescribed haircut. For example, if you have stocks worth Rs. 100,000 in your account and if the exchange prescribed haircut is 30%, then the actual cash value of your stocks will be Rs. 70000. However, if you want to utilize this Rs. 70000 as cash in your trading account, you need to have at least 30% of that value as actual cash (not stocks). This means that you need to have cash of around Rs. 25000 to utilize the entire margin benefit of Rs. 70000 against your stocks.
This means that at any time for you to utilise your margin against stocks, you need to have 30% of the total margin in terms of cash. All MTM losses if any will be considered from this cash margin available in your account.